"The truth will out."
So wrote Shakespeare. And he was right. The truth will always come out. What he did not know, could not have known, is that in the 21st century the truth would no longer matter. People simply don't care. The Republican congress, for instance, and the millions of Trump supporters who yet persist among us, simply do not care whether the president of the country uses tactics of corruption or bribery or self-serving threat against foreign leaders to gather dirt on his own political opponents. This is both who he is and who they know him to be. This is why they elected him. This is why they serve him. This is why they now make excuses for him--for, in some way, they are making excuses for themselves, for their own moral, or, rather, amoral world view, in government, in business, in relationship. Integrity? Honesty? Honor? Meh, all a bunch of high falutent, snowflake notions. In the "real" world, the king of the hill is the one who steps on as many people as he needs to, and if they didn't want to get stepped on, they shouldn't have gotten in the way. Might is right. The end justifies the means. What, after all, as Pilate famously asked, is 'truth'?
So wrote Shakespeare. And he was right. The truth will always come out. What he did not know, could not have known, is that in the 21st century the truth would no longer matter. People simply don't care. The Republican congress, for instance, and the millions of Trump supporters who yet persist among us, simply do not care whether the president of the country uses tactics of corruption or bribery or self-serving threat against foreign leaders to gather dirt on his own political opponents. This is both who he is and who they know him to be. This is why they elected him. This is why they serve him. This is why they now make excuses for him--for, in some way, they are making excuses for themselves, for their own moral, or, rather, amoral world view, in government, in business, in relationship. Integrity? Honesty? Honor? Meh, all a bunch of high falutent, snowflake notions. In the "real" world, the king of the hill is the one who steps on as many people as he needs to, and if they didn't want to get stepped on, they shouldn't have gotten in the way. Might is right. The end justifies the means. What, after all, as Pilate famously asked, is 'truth'?
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